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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is described as using calculation, not analysis?

2. What is Dupin's middle name?

3. What game does the word draughts refer to?

4. Where was the second body found at the Rue Morgue?

5. What is Dupin's one impossible scenario?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the tobacco salesman's relationship with the two murdered women.

2. What is determined by the testimonies at the murder trial?

3. Why might the story not be considered a work of horror?

4. Why is robbery not a motive for the murders?

5. What does the reader know about The Narrator?

6. Why does Dupin give The Narrator a pistol?

7. Describe the dead body that was found outside.

8. Why did Edgar Allan Poe include an epigraph before the story begins?

9. What was the result of the sailor coming clean about the orangutan?

10. Describe Adolphe's encounter with Madame L'Espanaye.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the relationship between the story's narrator and Dupin. Why is their relationship important to the story and the crime that is solved?

Essay Topic 2

How does Dupin solve the murders? What conclusions does he come to?

Essay Topic 3

What elements of a frame story are in this story? What purpose do these elements serve?

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